Amputee Football Photos


5 years after Sierra Leone`s brutal civil war ended the Freetown Amputee Football Team gather on Aberdeen Beach to practice for an upcoming match. During the war an estimated 20,000 men, women and children had limbs hacked off by the RUF and its child soldiers.

Football has provided many of them with with new identity and a sense of purpose. They are popular figures in Freetown and have been praised by other amputees for helping to lift some of the stigma surrounding their disability.

Photos by: Nabik Daniel Hunt – Image Lounge


One response to “Amputee Football Photos”

  1. I will like you to send me Richard ofei the amputee Player photos in the Sierra Leone cup…Places and places send it to me okay